Saturday, June 11, 2005

 

Conquered Coalition

Anybody here remember the Concord Coalition? They were a (so-called) bipartisan group founded by former Senators Warren Rudman (R-NH) and Paul Tsongas (D-MA), advocating for a balanced federal budget. They were all over the airwaves during the Nineties, giving Clinton holy hell until the budget first balanced, and then went into surplus.

Apparently they're still around, although I sure don't see them tearing their hair out because of Bush's LBJ-on-steroids budgets, with our Dinghy of State precariously adrift on an ocean of red ink.

For a "cowboy" afraid of horses, George W. Bush sure knows how to geld all the mavericks in D.C.

posted by Michael 1:45 PM